with Katharine Hersee
The delivery of new green spaces in London after the Second World War was one of the success stories of urban reconstruction; creating hundreds of acres of open space using bomb-damaged land as the nuclei sites around which larger parks could be assembled. This talk will show the range of space created on bomb-damaged land from pocket parks to larger green spaces, and describe how the metropolitan authorities sought to deliver them.
Katharine Hersee has an MA in Garden and Landscape History from the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London. She is continuing her post-graduate research there on her specialist subject of the parks and gardens of post-war London. Katharine is a keen amateur gardener, growing a wide range of plants in her Arts and Crafts Buckinghamshire garden and is an avid galanthophile. She also runs a local horticultural society and speaks regularly to other garden groups on a wide range of topics.
